Autocalibration of a Projector-Screen-Camera System: Theory and Algorithm for Screen-to-Camera Homography Estimation

  • Authors:
  • Takayuki Okatani;Koichiro Deguchi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper deals with the autocalibration of a systemthat consists of a planar screen, multiple projectors, and acamera. In the system, either multiple projectors or a singlemoving projector projects patterns on a screen while a stationarycamera placed in front of the screen takes images ofthe patterns. We treat the case in which the patterns that theprojectors project toward space are assumed to be known(i.e., the projectors are calibrated), whereas poses of theprojectors are unknown. Under these conditions, we considerthe problem of estimating screen-to-camera homographyfrom the images alone. This is intended for cases wherethere is no clue on the screen surface that enables directestimation of the screen-to-camera homography. One applicationis a 6DOF input device; poses of a multi-beamprojector freely moving in space are computed from the imagesof beam spots on the screen. The primary contributionof the paper is theoretical results on the uniqueness of solutionsand a noniterative algorithm for the problem. Theeffectiveness of the method is shown by experimental resultson synthetic as well as on real images.